{"id":30344,"date":"2023-02-21T11:13:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=30344"},"modified":"2023-02-21T11:14:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:14:05","slug":"did-you-know-152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/02\/21\/did-you-know-152\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that a youth pastor and foster parent were both recently arrested for human trafficking?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hillsborough County deputies first arrested 36-year-old Moises Escoto of Temple Terrace. Escoto, is a youth pastor at Iglesia de Cristo Misonera Mahanaim Church. After deputies conducted further investigation into Escoto\u2019s sexual victimization of a child through an app called Sniffes, they also discovered that another man living in Florida, was also using the same app to solicit sex from a child in exchange for money. Hillsborough County deputies identified that man as Joel Lutz, 38, who resides in Pasco County, and as a registered foster parent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Escoto and Lutz are facing charges of use of a computer services or devices to solicit certain illegal acts, human trafficking for commercial sexual activity, travelling to meet a minor after using computer services or devices for lewd or lascivious exhibition defendant over 18, lewd or lascivious batter, and other criminal charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This journalist has written articles recently, as well in the past identifying the State of Florida ranked as third-worst in the United States in terms of human and sex trafficking according to Human Trafficking Institute, and other organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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